purezen / react-koa-minimal-starter

A minimal boilerplate to get started with complete app using React and Koa, ready to be deployed to Heroku

react-koa-minimal-starter

A minimalist boilerplate to get started with app using React and Koa, ready to be deployed to Heroku.

The project aims to keep up with compatibility for the latest versions of the following tools:

• Koa v2.. for ES7 async/await support
• Babel v6
• React-hot-loader v3.. for removing some long-standing issues with the tool such as improved support for HOCs (Ref).

Key tools list:

• React.js
• Redux
• React-hot-loader
• Koa.js
• koa-router
• Babel.js
• Webpack

Setup

$ npm install

For Heroku support, you must have Heroku toolbelt installed.

Then create the app using

heroku create

Set the environment variable via

heroku config:set HEROKU_URL=$(heroku info -s | grep web_url | cut -d= -f2)

Usage

Development:

npm start starts webapp.. fires webpack-dev-server npm run server starts backend server

Production:

npm run build && npm run deploy

Folder structure

api
 |
 - controllers
   |
   - index.js
   - sampleController.js
 - db
   |
   - data.json
web
 |
 - actions/
 - components/
 - containers/
 - reducers/
config.js

Features:

• Not using .babelrc

TODO:

• Enable compatibility for UglifyJS for Babel6
• Single command to manage starting environments
• Production code should not need Babel(?)
• Improve webpack production config
• Add Gitter channel
• Live-reload for server
• Setup MongoDB integration
• Include authentication

Contributions

Feedback, issues are welcome!

LICENSE

MIT